EA are fast becoming an monopoly, if they buy and then fold the take2 sports games they will be shutting down the only competition that exists in that field, its nothing but bad news for the consumer.

I don't think EA would risk releasing their own console as they know just how many gamers avoid them as much as possible but I think they will very soon start to throw their weight around to negotiate special deals with the console makers or drastically reducing or abolishing the various fees they have to pay to release. After all, it would be a big loss for any console to be missing EA games, it was a big part of the reason why the Dreamcast didn't make it.